Improved 1936

Most of my game-play experience is with USA and UK. They are naval powers and as such I have observed that the main advantage of radar research is for naval radar brigades that really appear to improve naval combat. I assume that it has to do with improved spotting at night and in foul weather (which can be very important for you can't hit what you can't spot).

I agree that building radar stations is not money well spent compared to the alternative investments available.

In my American Mod though (and all other mods in the game since I change the misc file) I can build radar on most all ships since I permit BB, BC, CA, & CL to have 5 brigade attachments and DD 4 attachments. Although, the reason I allow for more brigades is to better simulate the upgrading of older ships through upgraded brigades which the Vanilla game does not allow as well having fewer brigades permitted.

So, in my games USA, Japan, UK, Germany, and Italy can make good uses of radar research for naval combat.

Edit: I did a recheck of your original 1936 AI files and Italy, Japan, and USSR have the following radar research code but UK, Germany, and USA do not:

#Radars
5410 5420 5430 5440 5450 5460 13030

The inconsistancy just looks like a simple oversight to me.

Anyway, great MOD!

You are correct. The ignore is indented so far to the right that I did not see it and by mistake thought that part of the priority list. It is too bad that the text in these types of files can't be color coded or the font changed to show the important headings like priority and ignore. My only computer programing course taken was FORTRAN IV and that was in 1967. The rest I had to pick up on my own.o

Some feedback on your mod Lord Jarski, assuming you don't mind? I'm playing JAP and it is Apr 43. GER didn't bring troops back from the eastern front to counter the USA invasion of France. GER won't last much longer, Berlin has fallen. Vichy is now mainland France by event. I took Phillipines, Guam, Singapore, but am up against lots of Indian divs on the Siam border. China is now on the defensive in Asia due to SOV pressure. If I can get my army reserve in the right place I may be able to do some damage to India. My navy is still intact so I can still transport divs back to the mainland for upgrading. Siam is dead due to USA bombing it to 0 IC. I havent been able to expand my AF yet. I will probably play on until the USA starts to nuke me, then give up. So your mod is much harder than vanilla, I'm only playing normal / normal and its difficult. If GER AI had been sensible & redeployed back to the west, victory may have been possible, but once they & ITA capitulate I will be up against SOV, ENG, USA, with only two functioning puppets.
Noticed earlier in the game the AI was changing some of my leaders; not only my puppet China, but also (if I recall correctly) some of my JAP leaders too. I dont recall this happening in vanilla AoD108.
I got a 5%? dissent hit at the time of Pearl Harbour by the event that tries to change the JAP government (I really wanted to keep existing ministers). That wasn't a nice one. Should I have allowed the govt change?
Would be good if your mod was able to make ITA try to take Suez so as to make it more difficult for the WAllies.

Downloading this to check out AoD again after playing DH for a while now. Hope to be pleasantly surprised.

I have been playing this mod 3 player networked for the last 5 months. It is great!

I have added my own changes -- lots of them -- especially AI changes that affect the Japanese, Canadians, and Australians. I have done nothing for that USA since we always have a human player. I currently make several tweaks in the game every couple of days and then test out as human USA single player or in 3 player multiplayer 2 times a week.

I have AI Japan legitimately attacking the Hawaiian Islands, Australia, New Zealand, West coast of India, Iraq (have even pushed to Suez from there), the Horn of Africa, and even Monrovia and the islands off the west coast of Africa. They will even attack the west coast of America if weakly guarded. I slowed down their push on China to allow them to build 20+ CVs and switched their ground troops to mountain/marines. This helps out a lot in Burma and even more in successfully doing amphibious assults.

All these changes made Australia vulnerable so I switched their production to all armor divisions (requires human USA or UK to give them a little oil) which then makes them self defendable. Australia and Canada have good production capacity but lack manpower eventually. Therefore armor is the solution.

AI Canada needs a human USA to take control of their troops and lend them so that the USA pays all supply and shipping costs.

There is too much to tell.

Since I am constantly updating the game changes almost daily, I choose not to post it yet. However it is much past the beta stage and is a very workable game with no known bugs. Many of my daily changes relate to new AI switches for all countries that are written on the fly for a game in progress. I have become good enough at this so as to write a new AI switch file and its needed event to fire it and be back and up running in the game in 10 minutes.

If anybody would like me to e-mail them a copy (~10mb zipped), contact me by personal message in the notification system and give me a e-mail to send it to.

Wouldn't it be better to take over SMEP and merge it with your mod ?

Lord Jarski said:

Yes, ive added a 1936 scenario that has all the additions, but doesent have the new nations, so UK is back in normal state in it.

Aye, Canada is good with armor, as it can easily trade with USA. Need to think on Australia, Asia is not the best of areas for armoured forces terrain-wise and it needs to defend its beaches.

UK-British India is still a work in progress, need to find some right balance for it from playtests, theres a MP game starting with the mod soonishly, will give me some ideas on how the situation is. But in any case, you can expect some changes to the situation in near future.

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The reason I came to giving Australia armour was to help them defend their island continent from a Japanese invasion and thereby relieving the USA and British allies of needing to send 3-9 motorized infantry or whatever to help them. The vast size of Australia makes non motorized forces too slow to respond well and the desert areas make cavalry undesirable. Like Canada, Australia has a good economic base but a manpower shortage so armour seems the unit of choice but requires some sort of standing trade agreement for oil from USA or UK. All of my game play has either a human UK or human USA or both so it can be managed. However, in an ai played game a game start trade between USA or UK with Australia for oil seems to work (similar to the game start trade between India and UK). Historically, after Pearl, the USA and Australia and a defense agreement as England was seen unable to do much for Australia's situation. In fact as I recently read in the recently completely 3rd volume of Churchill's biography, the USA had 480,000 men in the Pacific versus 360,000 men in Europe/Africa a year after the Pearl Harbour attack. So much for the "Germany First" theme!

I may have made some minor tweaks in Japan's AI that encourage them to invade Australia more than in your posted game. I have made a lot of minor AI tweaks in your game to make it harder on a human USA player since that is my objective -- to make a better game for a human USA player.